[Lustre-discuss] lustre in mainline kernel

2013-07-18 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all, I noticed that lustre was taken into the mainline kernel 3.11 and was wondering what that means for lustre, will we be able to install lustre without patching the kernel? Does this mean that packages for other distros will become a lot easier? Thanks, Eli

Re: [Lustre-discuss] lustre in mainline kernel

2013-07-18 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
Only the _client_ portion of lustre was added to the kernel tree, and currently it is just in staging. We have been able to build the lustre client without patches to the kernel for quite some time now, independent of the work to get the client into the upstream kernel. On the server side,